All Quotes

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
‐‐ Lord Byron

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
‐‐ Erich Fromm

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
‐‐ John Calvin

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
‐‐ Dorothea Brande

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
‐‐ Desiderius Erasmus

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
‐‐ Auguste Rodin

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
‐‐ Marquis de Sade

Man's nature is fundamentally good, or perhaps it is neither good nor evil. In any case, man is something to work on. We must hold fast to this fact - man is something to work on.
‐‐ Klas Pontus Arnoldson

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.
‐‐ Georg Simmel

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
‐‐ John Ruskin

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
‐‐ Edgar Allan Poe

Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
‐‐ Margaret Mead

Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
‐‐ Maimonides

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
‐‐ Abraham Joshua Heschel

Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.
‐‐ Rudolf Arnheim

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
‐‐ Norman Borlaug

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
‐‐ Carl Jung

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

Man's true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.
‐‐ Erik Erikson

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
‐‐ Paul Tillich

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
‐‐ Ayn Rand

Man's world is the planet of inexperience.
‐‐ Milan Kundera

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
‐‐ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
‐‐ Sai Baba

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
‐‐ Jean Cocteau

Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.
‐‐ Emile Durkheim

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.
‐‐ John Muir

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
‐‐ Norman Borlaug

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.
‐‐ Louis Sullivan

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
‐‐ Jesus Christ

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
‐‐ Rene Dubos

Man should be ever better than he seems.
‐‐ Aubrey de Vere

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
‐‐ Anthony Eden

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
‐‐ Thomas de Quincey

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
‐‐ Hans Selye

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
‐‐ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
‐‐ Antoine Rivarol

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
‐‐ Lao Tzu

Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
‐‐ John Burroughs

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
‐‐ Margaret Fuller

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
‐‐ Charles Darwin

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.
‐‐ Elvis Presley

Man, the flavor of a pineapple is 100 times more powerful than the flavor of meat.
‐‐ Jose Andres